Solution Architect

About AvidXchange

AvidXchange is a leading provider of accounts payable ("AP") automation software and payment solutions for middle market businesses and their suppliers. By trade, we are a technology company, but if you ask anyone that works here, they'll tell you our people are at the core of who we are. We are all entrepreneurs who love to innovate and win with a passion for serving our customers. While we take personal ownership of our everyday work, we recognize that we only win as a team.

Since our founding in 2000 in Charlotte, NC, we've created a company of over 1,600 teammates working in one of our 7 offices across the U.S., or remotely. We're building more than a tech company - we're building an experience. We remain committed to a culture where you can fully be 'you' - connected with others, chasing big goals and making a meaningful impact. If you want to help us grow while realizing your potential and creating stories you'll tell for years, you've come to the right place.

AvidXchange is proud to be Certified™ as aGreat Place to Work®. The prestigious recognition is based on anonymous data from our teammates and makes official what our teammates have known for years - that AvidXchange is a Great Place to Work®.

Solution Architect

Overview

Solutions architectsdrivetechnical transformation at Avidin product and engineering teamsby beingtechnical leaders.Each architect owns afocus areaaround some part of Avid's business or internal operations, andtheir technical input is essential for ensuring weempower engineering teams.They serve as both the technical champions for our transformation work and the representatives for how to build great software.

Responsibilities

A solutions architect at Avidhas six responsibilities:

Embody technical excellence:Craft technical designs andarchitecturalsolutions to meet businessand productneeds. Be a role model forthe architectural ideas of other technical staff.

Awareness of the technology landscape:Provide architectural assessments of existing technologies, team deliverables, and industry developments and trends.

Experienced at softwareprototyping:Build software proof-of-concepts to determine the feasibility and technical risks of a proposed design, or to evaluate new technologies.

Good communicator of technical ideas:Understand, define, and communicate critical quality attributes or non-functional requirements.Simplify ideas fordifferentaudiences.

Partnership with productand engineeringteams:Provide key technical inputs to product,technology, and platformroadmaps.

Peer leaderfortransformation andtechnical excellence:Collaborateand leadwith other architects in the creation, adoption, and spreadof company technology standardsandprinciplesfor engineering teams

Required Qualifications

While there are many different paths to be a successful architect, there are a few elements we like to see in common. If you think you could carry out the responsibilities above, we would love to have you apply.That said, there aresix keyqualifications we think are important for success:

Keyqualifications

• About7 to 10 years offull-timeengineeringor architecturalexperience, with at leasthalfof thathavingsolutionsarchitectureresponsibilities.We are looking for peoplewho explicitly responsible for architecting solutions,who come from a technical background,and who either held anexplicitarchitecture role orwere in a technical leadership role where architecture was a core function.
• Demonstrated ability to write software.While the production of software is not your primary role, technical credibility isvital for communicating effectively with engineers and demonstrating technical excellence - for example, building proof of concepts, sketching out test cases so you can experiment on, and so on.
• Familiarity withmodern,domain-drivenmodeling approachesandtools,so that you can communicate your ideas consistently. Good technical modeling doesn't mean opening PowerPoint; it means thinking carefully about how the systems you'll behelping teams build togetherwill work witheach other andrepresenting that in ways that everyone can understand.

• Facilitation and communication skills.You willleadinternal and external stakeholders to shared understandings of complex domainsand propose technical solutions. You will need to be able to communicate the merits and tradeoffs of your ideas both to technical and nontechnical executives, as well as engineers and product owners.
• Demonstratedstrategicthinking beyond the scope of your technical solution.Your work and designs are always part of a greater whole. Understandinghowyou impactother systems andpeople andarticulatinghow it aligns with broader goalsare important.
• ExpertisewithAzure,the.NETCLRplatform, and the C# programming language.AvidXchange iswidely deployedin both Azure and on-premises environments, and almost everything is written in C# plus Angular, JavaScript.To be effective, you will need to be comfortable with the general concerns of distributed systems and cloud environments, and the popular technologiesin this space.

Preferred Qualifications

While there are many different paths to be a successful architect, there are a few elements we like to see in common

• Prior experience in Payment systems

Equal Employment Opportunity

AvidXchange is an equal opportunity employer.AvidXchange is committed to equal employment opportunity in accordance withapplicable federal, state, and local laws. AvidXchange will not discriminateagainst applicants for employment on any legally recognized basis. Thisincludes, but is not limited to veteran status, race, color, religion, sex,sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ageand physical or mental disability.

Other details

• Job Family Software Engineering
• Job Function Software Architecture Engineering
• Pay Type Salary
• Employment Indicator Professional